Poetics of love in the Arabic novel : nation-state, modernity and tradition / / Wen-chin Ouyang

• Autore: Ouyang Wen-chin
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 892.73009
• Soggetto topico: Arabic fiction - History and criticism; Love in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Prologue PRESENTING THE PAST: THE ARABIC NOVEL AND THE DIALECTICS OF MODERNISATION; PART I Mapping the Nation: Place, Space, Text; Chapter 1 NATION-STATE; Chapter 2 NATION-WITHOUT-STATE; PART II Love: Legitimacy of the Nation, Authenticity of the Novel; Chapter 3 LEGITIMACY OF THE NATION; Chapter 4 IMPROPRIETY OF THE STATE; PART III Desire: Arab Experiences of Modernity; Chapter Five DECOLONISATION; Chapter 6 MODERNISATION; Afterword THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition.The novel is now a major genre in the Arabic literary field; this book explores the development of the novel, especially the ways in which the genre engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.It takes love and desire as the central tropes through which the Arabic novel tells the tale of its search for form in a world mapped by conflicting ideas. As it falls in love with the nation-state, the Arabic novel flirts with modernity and lives u
• Titolo autorizzato: Poetics of love in the Arabic novel
• ISBN: 1-282-00236-8; 9786613795540; 0-7486-5505-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816528403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II